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fairyism|ˈfɛərɪɪz(ə)m|
[f. as prec. + -ism.]
a. The personal qualities of a fairy; fairy power. Hence transf. the power (of a poet) to cast a spell over a hearer or reader.
b. The conditions of fairy existence; a resemblance to those conditions; fairyland.
c. Belief in fairies, fairy-lore.
1715tr. D'Anois' Wks. 373 The Gift of Faryism, which I receiv'd from my Birth. 1763H. Walpole Let. G. Montagu 17 May, The air of enchantment and fairyism, which is the tone of the place. 1796W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. XXI. 491 The miracles of fairyism. 1803― in Ann. Rev. I. 265, I would have shown you the great power of my fairyism. 1835Sir E. Brydges Milton's Comus 182 Thomson..has not the distinctness and fairyism of Milton. 1843Blackw. Mag. LIV. 26 What Rousseau..terms ‘a false air of magnificence, fairyism, and enchantment’. 1877Ouida Puck xxiii. 273 In all her..winged fairyism. |